Connect with researchers, educators, and local community leaders and get involved in programs focused on energy, the environment, and sustainability studies. All undergraduate students are invited to attend to learn about research, education, and career opportunities in energy, the environmental, and sustainability studies.…
Dr. Lieberman is an assistant professor in the English department at the University of North Florida. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2011 to 2013 she was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University in their Department of Science and Technology Studies. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Lieberman has held fellowships at the Bakken Library and Museum, the Smithsonian Institute, the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation. At the University of North Florida, she was a 2016-2017 Community Scholar in the Center for Community Based Learning and was the 2017 Fellow for the Florida Blue Center for Ethics. Additionally, she earned UNF’s Presidential Diversity and Inclusion Award in 2017. She is the author of Power Lines: Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882-1952.…
Electrification has touched nearly every aspect of American life. Between 1882 and 1952, it changed daily routines, inspired new art forms, revolutionized the fields of chemistry, biology, and physics—it even changed landscapes and ecosystems. The corporate and scientific dimensions of this history have been told; Dr. Jennifer Lieberman tells the narrative and cultural history. Discussing her book, Power Lines: Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882-1952 …
Sean Seymore is a Professor of Law and a Professor of Chemistry at Vanderbilt University. His talk, "Rethinking Failure in Law and Sciences" addresses how patent law should change in response to scientific advances and how the formation of public policy should be impacted by law and science. Professor Seymore graduated from the University of Tennessee as a Tennessee Scholar with his B.S. in Chemistry. He received his M.S. in Chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry and a law degree from the University of Notre Dame.…
Professor Lawrence Principe is coming to give a talk and a demonstration of some alchemical practices!…
Graduate student workshop with Harvey Brown, lunch will be provided!…
Harvey Brown will give a talk on Einstein's rocky road to his discovery of gravity, focusing on the action-reaction principle.
Einstein regarded as one of the triumphs of his 1915 theory of gravity — the general theory of relativity — that it vindicated the action–reaction principle, while Newtonian mechanics as well as his 1905 special theory of relativity supposedly violated it. In this talk I examine why Einstein came to emphasize this position several years after the development of general relativity. Several key considerations are relevant to the story: the connection Einstein originally saw between Mach’s analysis of inertia and both the equivalence principle and the principle of general covariance, the waning of Mach’s influence owing to de Sitter’s 1917 results, and Einstein’s detailed correspondence with Moritz Schlick in 1920. The talk is largely based on the paper: …
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Vincent Resh, Ph.D., is a professor of aquatic ecology at the University of California-Berkeley who has studied rivers and wetlands around the globe with the goal of improving human health and environmental quality. A renowned researcher and teacher, Resh received the Award of Excellence from the Society for Freshwater Science and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California.…
PLEASE NOTE THIS DATE IS RESCHEDULED from the original March 23 date that was cancelled due to East Coast severe weather conditions.
Genese Sodikoff is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and her talk, "Multispecies Ethnography and Epidemiological Puzzles," discusses the challenges of epidemiology within rapidly transforming landscape and genetics. As a cultural anthropologist, Professor Sodikoff is interested in the political economy of biodiversity loss, conservation, and restoration, labor and rain forest conservation in Madagascar, and the biotic and cultural problem of extinction. She is the author of Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere…
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The conference will feature talks, presentations, and discussions of the text, its philosophical and historical context and significance, and ways of incorporating Du Châtelet’s philosophy into undergraduate teaching. Register Now
The conference will feature talks, presentations, and discussions of the text, its philosophical and historical context and significance, and ways of incorporating Du Châtelet’s philosophy into undergraduate teaching. Register Now
